October 7th, 2009

In “Cooling Down the Cassandras” (Washington Post 10/01/09), George Will comments about the difficulty of reducing greenhouse gas emissions enough to avoid damage from climate change: “That will not happen. So, we are doomed. So, why try?” This, coupled with the history of his rejection of climate change science (see Washington Post 3/21/09, “Climate Change Myths and Facts” for a discussion of the latter) perfectly encapsulate the Republican strategy on climate change: deny that it exists because there’s no absolute proof and obstruct any action on it, until you can finally claim that it’s now too late to do anything about it, so we might as well not bother. Click on the “Climate change” tag below for more posts.